Description
Book SynopsisThis guide to painting watercolour landscapes is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. Broken down into 33 quick and easy paintings that take no more than 30 minutes to complete, this basic course will teach you all the skills you need to paint landscapes and their components, including trees in winter, sparkling water, hedgerows and gates, animals, human figures and buildings in the landscape.
The 30-minute paintings are all worked at postcard size – ideal for a 6 x 4in (A6) watercolour pad, and tracings are included for those with limited drawing skills. Each small painting is a work of art in its own right, and can be stored in your portfolio for reference later, or framed and hung on the wall to impress your friends.
The book is broken down into chapters that focus, respectively, on essential watercolour techniques including colour mixing and glazing; laying washes and creating skies and realistic-looking clouds; the rudiments of composition; trees and flowers in a landscape; water– still and moving, from stream to open sea; and the living landscape – human and animal figures, structures and buildings in the landscape.
The final section of the book contains three complete paintings that demonstrate how to combine all the techniques and elements of painting landscapes, as gleaned from the preceding chapters. These paintings, too, are accompanied by actual-size tracings.
There are 33 tracings in all to help you compose your own landscape paintings.
Praise for the Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes series:
“This is a genuinely exciting evolution of a popular series. You’ll be guided through some simple exercises and on to complete paintings, gaining valuable insights that will develop and improve your skills.” – Henry Malt, Artbookreview.net
Trade ReviewFor a general appreciation, please look at the series tag above. I like the new iteration of the old Ready to Paint series a lot and these latest volumes diminish that not a jot.
Dave Woollass is a new author and one I hope we’ll see more of. He has a pleasantly loose style that’s readily achievable and explains his working methods well. He’s also comfortable with the variety of subject matter that the series demands and this would be a book worth seeking out even if the series in general isn’t your regular cup of tea.
* Artbookreview.net *
May 2018
Landscapes in Watercolour by Dave Woolas is a new addition to the popular Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes series from Search Press, which is ideal for anyone keen to get started but short on time . Dave introduces 33 quick and easy paintings all postcard sized to make them easier to paint within 30 minutes. As well as any step-by-step demonstrations tracings are provided for anyone who struggles with drawing and simple wishes to get straight on with colour adding.
* The Leisure Painter *
Broken down into 33 quick and easy paintings that take no more than 30 minutes to complete, this book will teach you all the skills you need to paint landscapes and their components, including trees in winter, sparkling water, hedgerows and gates, animals, human figures and buildings in the landscape.
Dave focuses on essential watercolour techniques including colour mixing, glazing and laying washes as well as creating skies, trees and flowers in a landscape.
-- The SAA * The SAA Catalogue 19/20 *
Table of ContentsTracings
Introduction 6
Basic painting equipment 8
Colour mixing 10
Colourful greys 12
Mixing greens 14
Glazing 16
Winter scene 18
Figures in a glade 20
Washes and skies 22
Calm landscape 24
Morning sky 26
A darker day 28
Clouds 30
Stormy night 32
Pale dawn sky 34
A moody sky 36
Composition 38
By the lake 40
Fences 42
Fence line in the snow 44
Trees and flowers 46
Hedgerows 48
Layered foliage 50
Spring foliage 52
Summer tree 54
Autumn tree 56
Winter trees 58
Poppy field 60
Wildflower patch 62
Flowerbeds 64
Water 66
Giving water depth and sparkle 68
Boat on open water 70
Waterfall 72
The living landscape 74
The rambler 76
Watching the gondolas 78
Distant sheep 80
Dry-stone bridge 82
Farm building 84
Distant buildings 86
The urban landscape 88
Country Cottage 90
Boats on a Lake 92
Autumn Walk 94
Index 96
